If you've ever looked over at one of the terminals a Costco employee is using, you may be wondering why it looks like something out of the 1980s. Here's why.

Dell's XPS line of computers is geared toward higher-end hardware, but do those three letters actually stand for anything or is it purely branding?

If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies like Data General. But you ...